tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post2282241947770173703..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Dispassionate Hatred Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-64719981971457145902015-06-30T12:26:37.795-07:002015-06-30T12:26:37.795-07:00Thank you, Magister. Thank you, Magister. USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-60274015817592215752015-06-30T11:05:06.747-07:002015-06-30T11:05:06.747-07:00Julie, John, Ben, thanks, I know all our prayers a...Julie, John, Ben, thanks, I know all our prayers are working to the good. Ben, you've been in my prayers as well.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-13429449113249704502015-06-30T10:40:28.847-07:002015-06-30T10:40:28.847-07:00My condolences, Magister.
Prayers for your friend...My condolences, Magister. <br />Prayers for your friends and you. Please feel free to e-mail me if you ever wanna talk, or if you have any prayer requests.<br />Ussben@icloud.comUSS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-25846074367200205782015-06-30T09:18:30.668-07:002015-06-30T09:18:30.668-07:00Sorry to hear that, Magister. I said a prayer for...Sorry to hear that, Magister. I said a prayer for you and your friends.John Lienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02302615225311776021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-79212133654445208832015-06-30T09:02:39.620-07:002015-06-30T09:02:39.620-07:00Magister, thanks for sharing that. I'm so sorr...Magister, thanks for sharing that. I'm so sorry to hear of the loss of your friend. And will be praying that your colleague's leukemia does go into remission. juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41391510854655014682015-06-30T08:21:50.838-07:002015-06-30T08:21:50.838-07:00I feel I have something to say here. Three weeks a...I feel I have something to say here. Three weeks ago, one of my best friends was killed on her bicycle on a remote country road by an old man driving a pickup. She was 63, a major scholar, a devoted friend, and as a self-described "progressive," pretty much on the opposite side of every issue from me. I'm still grieving her death, as is my entire family.<br /><br />And now yesterday I learned that another colleague of mine, a man not much older than me, a Dominican tertiary, an enormously productive, industrious, well-respected man in an administrative position at my university, and one who sees eye to eye with me on pretty much every political issue, has been diagnosed with leukemia. I'm holding out hope that something can be done to knock his disease into remission, but I don't know much of anything about it yet, and it's obviously going to be a huge blow to lose him.<br /><br />I've reached the Age of Losing Friends on both sides of the political aisle. I'm going to have to learn to let this settle in and live alongside it for the foreseeable future. <br /><br />To the point of your post, Bob, I suppose it was easier to live with my first friend's politics -- and hers with mine -- because we trusted that we would take care of each other. We knew we'd do this because we knew that political struggle did not define who we were, at bottom. It would always be, we knew, subordinated to charity. I don't think this was a cop out on either of our part. The reality of our affection and trust for each other made our politics a secondary game. This was, I think, as it should've been. <br /><br />We are sub specie aeternitatis. What makes me cold with contempt for "gay" activitists is the way they have reduced everyone. I cannot get along with people that small-souled and sour. To cope, I simply avoid them. Like you, I'm polite, but until they start treating me as a person, I will have nothing to do with them.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-44189839533615727412015-06-29T17:45:00.804-07:002015-06-29T17:45:00.804-07:00Love Hurts.Love Hurts.Diadorius Boudleaux Bryantnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-62852980786873040682015-06-29T17:19:25.499-07:002015-06-29T17:19:25.499-07:00I would be happy to earnestly smack some sense int...I would be happy to earnestly smack some sense into Josh, with the shillelagh of good sense.Skullynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-19915534792926319782015-06-29T16:46:02.575-07:002015-06-29T16:46:02.575-07:00I think you can thump somebody without hating them...I think you can thump somebody without hating them. There's a difference between the white trash "step-father" who abuses a child and the way my mother disciplined me. Mom loved me enough to beat a little sense into me. Obviously, Josh Earnest's parents didn't really love him. <br /><br />But I do. mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-13131516915703490922015-06-29T16:28:48.690-07:002015-06-29T16:28:48.690-07:00For example, why do we wear clothing instead of go...<i>For example, why do we wear clothing instead of going about naked, as they do in San Francisco?</i><br /><br />Here in the real world, we have something called blackberry briars. I guarantee the "help" that are running the trimmers out in 'Frisco are wearing britches of some sort.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-63175657852576783142015-06-29T15:35:05.046-07:002015-06-29T15:35:05.046-07:00Completely dispassionately, of courseCompletely dispassionately, of courseGagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-37206120656359458232015-06-29T15:32:57.162-07:002015-06-29T15:32:57.162-07:00I personally wouldn't want to punch Josh Earne...I personally wouldn't want to punch Josh Earnest. Whack his smarmy mug with an axe handle, rather. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-56576999219461710952015-06-29T15:29:23.639-07:002015-06-29T15:29:23.639-07:00Yeah. Thanks, Obamacare!
Kurt, I don't have t...Yeah. Thanks, Obamacare!<br /><br />Kurt, I don't have that desire, but probably because I try to avoid watching the news as much as possible, so couldn't pick him out of a lineup. I much prefer the transcripts.<br /><br />A Cluebat wielded for the recipient's own good is not necessarily a bad thing. It all depends on how dispassionately and accurately you swing.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-75822569703267014782015-06-29T15:26:31.609-07:002015-06-29T15:26:31.609-07:00Same with me! The pharmacy tech kind of apologeti...Same with me! The pharmacy tech kind of apologetically flashes me the receipt with the number on it, and says "you sure you want it?" Well, yeah, since I'll be dead without it. <br /><br />Held hostage by the state.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23621638772945616702015-06-29T15:25:44.170-07:002015-06-29T15:25:44.170-07:00I know we're not supposed to hate, but is it j...I know we're not supposed to hate, but is it just me or does anyone else want to punch Josh Earnest in his mealy-mouthed mug? He epitomizes the smug, arrogant yet incredibly ignorant philosophy of this corrupt regime. Maybe I could punch him for his own good, like to wake him up? I guess that wouldn't be very Christian, though...Kurthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01750808052006968358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-32134086784380998432015-06-29T15:23:43.163-07:002015-06-29T15:23:43.163-07:00Yep. My kid's generic anti-seizure medicine ha...Yep. My kid's generic anti-seizure medicine has shot way up this year, too - more than double the cost compared to last year. Whenever I go to pick it up, the pharmacists always ask, rather hesitatingly, if I know that's going to be the price. They must have a <i>lot</i> of people either freaking out about prices or just flat-out refusing to fill their meds. Not a good time to be sick.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29672880757094526652015-06-29T15:18:36.653-07:002015-06-29T15:18:36.653-07:00My healthcare costs have gone up tremendously in t...My healthcare costs have gone up tremendously in the last year. I would assume it's because of Obamacare, but who has time to do the research? All I know is diabetes was already an expensive disease, and now I have to help pay for people who don't take care of theirs.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-11422630712318083022015-06-29T15:06:28.739-07:002015-06-29T15:06:28.739-07:00That's a superb idea, Julie, lol.
BTW, I recei...That's a superb idea, Julie, lol.<br />BTW, I received a letter recently begging me to enroll. As bad as the VA can be I think I'll decline, because SCOTUSBAMAScare will be much worse and cost more. <br />To the left that's considered progress.<br /><br />Basic math and economics still eludes them, much like the Greeks they admire so much.<br /><br />While we're wishin' I think everyone who supports this mess should be forced to enroll. But the left never puts it's money where it's collective heads are at.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-2360165857535091772015-06-29T14:50:14.308-07:002015-06-29T14:50:14.308-07:00Yep. Also for mainstream media. Then maybe they...Yep. Also for mainstream media. Then maybe they'd tell the truth about it.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-63597153721237543562015-06-29T14:48:42.216-07:002015-06-29T14:48:42.216-07:00Julie, as Iowahawk pointed out it's so afforda...Julie, as Iowahawk pointed out it's so affordable it had to be mandatory. <br />Now if only we can make it mandatory for SCOTUS, Congress, POTUS and govt. Unions. Then we wouldn't hear about how affordable and great it is.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-24227977315964606092015-06-29T14:00:32.057-07:002015-06-29T14:00:32.057-07:00Re. yesterday's troll, I figure maybe he was r...Re. yesterday's troll, I figure maybe he was ranting about how hateful we are because deep down, he's hoping we'll show our true colors and pray for him.<br /><br />Me, I'm actually sorry that people are starting to get what they voted for. Like that awesome health care that's so easy to access. It's so awesome, my mom can't even get a primary care doctor in her town to refer her to her pulmonologist so she can figure out why her blood pressure went nuts earlier this year. She had her one free visit, though, so you know. Access. It's great. Looking forward to discovering how that accessible health care will work for my family in the coming year, too. I'm sure it'll be fabulous.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59378461379570709062015-06-29T12:31:33.827-07:002015-06-29T12:31:33.827-07:00Bob, that's a good point.
It is quite differen...Bob, that's a good point.<br />It is quite different when you meet someone face to face, and politeness costs nothing. <br />I always marvel at the way Churchill could politely tell idiots how idiotic they are without being bombastic about it.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-32835709010553743392015-06-29T12:26:44.496-07:002015-06-29T12:26:44.496-07:00Greece reminds me of Detroit. Detroit in the 1950...Greece reminds me of Detroit. Detroit in the 1950s was a great place to live. But today, if you compare Berlin to Detroit, you'd think we lost WW2. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-28645274161103858952015-06-29T12:26:17.285-07:002015-06-29T12:26:17.285-07:00Of course, Iowahawk says it better than I (dammit!...Of course, Iowahawk says it better than I (dammit!):<br /><br />David Burge @iowahawkblog<br />Birthplace of democracy wants to vote against math.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-72134861816285290912015-06-29T12:23:22.635-07:002015-06-29T12:23:22.635-07:00No matter how much I dislike someone in the abstra...No matter how much I dislike someone in the abstract, I pretty much can't help being polite to them in the flesh. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.com